Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Maybe Aamir Khan Can Highlight This Injustice

“According to Mohammedan law, a girl can
marry without the consent of her parents once she attains the age of puberty,”
Justices S. Ravindra Bhat and S.P. Garg of the Delhi High Court said recently. The bench was ruling on a Delhi Muslim girl’s
contention that she had married on her own free will when she was 15 years old
and that her mother’s charge that she had been abducted be dropped. She won the
case."This is nothing but promoting 'balika
vadhus' among the Muslims, while the same (child marriage) is illegal among
the Hindus," Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in the
party mouthpiece Saamna.Elaborating, Thackeray said that as per the
Indian laws, no girl below the age of 18 and no boy below 21 are legally
permitted to marry.

Moreover, any kind of physical
relationship with a girl below 18 is treated as "rape", even if that
relationship is with her consent. This law applies equally to all Indians,
irrespective of caste, creed or religion, he said.